[HANASHIR:7052] Re: sukkot music?

[Shira Kline <shirlalala...>]

Hi everyone!  Shana Tova.  I hope everyone had a meaningful fast and holiday
season.  I've been dutifully looking over all this Sukkot music.  I have been
doing a parody to the Calypso tune "Shake Sonoro" for a few years with early
childhood and its really fun.  Here are the words:

First we do a few rounds of :
ch-ka ch-ka ch-ka ch-ka ch-ka ch-ka ch-ka
(and dance around shaking our imaginery lulav)

Shake shake shake your lulav
Shake your lulav RIGHT!
Shake shake shake your lulav
Shake your lulav LEFT!
Shake shake shake your lulav
Shake your lulav FRONT!
Shake shake shake your lulav
Shake your lulav BACK!
Oh when you shake shake shake your lulav
You gotta shake it UP!
And when you shake shake shake your lulav
You gotta shake it DOWN!

Shake shake shake your lulav
Shake it all around  (X 2)

Build build build your sukkah
Build it big and wide (X 2)
And (Cause) when you build build build your sukkah
You gotta see sky  (X 2)

Hold the Etrog,
hold the etrog tight (X 2)
Cause if you break the Etrog
You gotta throw it out (X 2)

Then we throw in more ch-ka ch-ka sounds and the shake shake verses inbetween.
It is very fun with instruments and to dance with.


Rachelle and Howard Shubert wrote:

> Ethan and anyone else doing children's music for Sukkot, here are a few
> suggestions:
>
> "Hasukah Ma Yafah" is a nice, traditional and singable song.
>
> In addition, this fun suggestion came to me last year on the list from Karen
> or Judith or someone else (sorry that I forget).
>
> To the Calypso tune of "Shake Sonora"
>
> Shake, shake shake your Lulav
> Shake it all the time (2x)
>
> It's a good one to place in the middle of your concert when you want the
> kids to have a stretch.  It is also conducive to using small rhythm
> instruments.  Have them sing and dance to different movements, sing it
> softly, loudly, just girls, just boys, etc.
>
> Add any songs about stars "Twinkle Twinkle", "Starlight Starbright" or the
> spiritual "Great Big Stars Way up Yonder" and substituting the word kochavim
> (stars) whenever possible. Any children's songs you may know about fruits
> and vegetables or farming could also tie in e.g. Raffi's "I Like to Eat
> Apples and Bananas" and the songs "Aikendrum", "Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley
> Grow" and "Garden Song" ("Inch by inch, row by row I'm gonna make this
> garden grow").  The children's song "Going on a Picnic" could be changed to
> "Going to the Sukkah".
>
> Judith Kaplan Ginsburgh has a number of good holiday children's songs in her
> publication.  There is also a fine book by Rachel Buchman, published by Mel
> Bay and a useful book called Apples and Other Days by Leah Abrams.
>
> Have fun.  This age group is great to sing for.
>
> Rachelle
>

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